# CTAN update: longdivision

Date: March 26, 2019 10:49:20 AM CET
Hood Chatham submitted an update to the longdivision package. Version number: 1.1.0 2019-03-24 License type: lppl Summary description: Long division arithmetic problems Announcement text:
Updated to include more flexible output, including partial completion of a problem, "German" style long division, a nicer radical symbol if tikz is loaded, and various notations for repeating decimals.
Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Erik Braun
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## longdivision – Typesets long division

This package executes the long division algorithm and typesets the solutions. The dividend must be a positive decimal number and the divisor must be a positive integer. Repeating decimals is handled correctly, putting a bar over the repeated part of the decimal. Dividends up to 20 digits long are handled gracefully (though the typeset result will take up about a page), and dividends between 20 and 60 digits long slightly less gracefully.

The package defines two macros, \longdivision and \intlongdivision. Each takes two arguments, a dividend and a divisor. \longdivision keeps dividing until the remainder is zero, or it encounters a repeated remainder. \intlongdivision stops when the dividend stops (though the dividend doesn’t have to be an integer).

This package depends on the xparse package from the l3packages bundle.

 Package longdivision Version 1.2.0 2020-05-09 Maintainer Hood Chatham

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